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Mountain. In the spring of 1907, having been restored to the 
rolls of the Forest Service, he was located in Clearwater Valley, 
Mont., until January, 1908, and in and around Bozeman on the 
Gallatin Forest. In the spring of 1908 he was in charge of 
a field party in Custer County, Mont., and in the summer of the 
same year had a field party in West Gallatin Valley near 
Bozeman. 
He spent the early winter, 1908-09, in Washington, D. C., 
and from February until the middle of April was in charge 
of a field party in Northern Alabama, working in codperation 
with the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company. The following 
summer he had a field party in the vicinity of Boulder, Town- 
send and Bozeman, Mont., and was in Missoula, Mont., the first 
part of the winter of 1909-10. In February, 1910, he went to 
Bozeman to be on the Gallatin Forest. In August, 1910, he 
was transferred to the Madison Forest with headquarters at 
Sheridan, Mont., and in March, 1911, went to Au Sable, Mich., 
as acting supervisor of the Michigan and Marquette National 
forests. In the fall of 1911 the headquarters of these forests 
was changed to East Tawas, Mich., on account of the destruction 
of the towns of Au Sable and Oscoda by fire on July 11, 19rt. 
He is a member of the Unitarian church. 
Merritt B. Pratt 
Nevada City, Calif. 
Merritt Berry Pratt was born October 3, 1878, in Paw Paw, IIl., the 
son of Wilbur Alfonso Pratt, a druggist, and Mary Evelyn Pratt. His 
father’s people came to Illinois from Deep River, Conn., and his mother’s 
father came from New York to Chicago, where he was a carpenter, 
later a farmer and wheat grower. He has one brother and one sister: 
Helen Harriett Pratt, a member of the class of 1915 at Lake Forest Uni- 
versity, and Roger Wilbur Pratt. 
He was graduated from the Paw Paw High School in 1897, Morgan 
Park Academy in 1900 and received the degree of B.S. at the University 
of Chicago in 1903. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
He was married November 24, 1907, in Nevada City, Calif., to Miss 
Laura May Schroder, daughter of Charles Schroder and Ida Schroder. 
They have a daughter, Mary Louise Pratt, born June 11, 1911, in Nevada 
City, Calif. 


